Are Banks Struggling, or Scamming? Are Banks Struggling, or Scamming?
After all the help that's been given to banks or extorted from the public, we have the feeling financial institutions are not doing much with the money.
Apr 24, 2009 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Rethink Afghanistan Debate Part III Rethink Afghanistan Debate Part III
The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel explores the similarities between the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan in the last of a three-part debate.
Apr 24, 2009 / Brave New Films
Garfield Shot: The Moral of It Garfield Shot: The Moral of It
Charles Guiteau was unhappy with the way the civil service treated him, so he shot President Garfield.
Apr 24, 2009 / Feature / The Editors
Hayes-Tilden: The Political Situation Hayes-Tilden: The Political Situation
Long before Richard Nixon and Watergate, the nation suffers through another long political nightmare--the election of 1876.
Apr 24, 2009 / The Editors
The IWW Trial The IWW Trial
The great and sensational case of the United States of America vs. William D. Haywood et al. resulted in a verdict of "Guilty" against the one hundred defendants who finally fa...
Apr 24, 2009 / Feature / Victor S. Yarros
Court Packing Plan: Hughes Checkmates the President Court Packing Plan: Hughes Checkmates the President
Even FDR can't win them all.
Apr 24, 2009 / Feature / Robert S. Allen
Watergate: The Mafia Metaphor Watergate: The Mafia Metaphor
Ron Ziegler may have called it a third-rate burglary, but the men who broke in to the Democratic National Committee headquarters all had a connection to the president's re-election...
Apr 24, 2009 / Feature / The Editors
Talking to Hamas Talking to Hamas
Given that the new Israeli government is an inflexible bunch of hardliners, the best area for the Obama administration to make progress in the Israel-Palestine conflict is for the...
Apr 23, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Another New School Demo (CLARIFIED) Another New School Demo (CLARIFIED)
This dispatch just in from Gabriel Gil Arana, a current Nation intern: In March, the New School let go of 12 part-time/adjunct faculty at Parsons' fine arts department. Today, ove...
Apr 23, 2009 / Richard Kim
Lattimore Case: McCarthy’s Vicious Retreat Lattimore Case: McCarthy’s Vicious Retreat
Tailgunner Joe meets his match in the professorial China hand, who won't surrender to the Senator's bullying.
Apr 23, 2009 / Feature / Willard Shelton